Suffocation; a lack of oxygen that produces a build-up of carbon
dioxide waste in the tIssues.
Asphyxia May arise from any one of a number of causes, including inhalation of smoke or poisonous gases, obstruction of the windpipe (by water, food, vomit, or foreign object), strangulation, or smothering.
If it is not quickly relieved, brain damage or death ensues.
They were reputed either to smoke cannabis before they went out to
murder,
or to receive hashish as payment.
Destruction of body tissue by extremes of temperature, corrosive
chemicals, electricity, or radiation.
First-degree burns may cause reddening; second-degree burns cause blistering and irritation but usually heal spontaneously; third-degree burns are disfiguring and may be life- Threatening.
Burns cause plasma, the fluid component of the blood, to leak from the blood vessels, and it is this loss of circulating fluid that engenders shock . Emergency treatment is needed for third-degree burns in order to replace the fluid volume, prevent infection (a dire threat to the severely burned), and reduce the pain.
Plastic, or reconstructive, surgery, including skin grafting, may be required to compensate for damaged tissue and minimize disfigurement.
A method of suicide has been to douse oneself with petrol and set fire to it.
Burning a body in order to dispose of the evidence has been used by a lot of murderers. In order to reduce the whole body including the bones to ashes the fire has to be extremely hot therefore often in such cases enough evidence has been found within the ashes to convict.
Alfred Arthur Rouse was hanged on the 10 March 1930 at Bedford Gaol for the murder of an unknown man. It was late at night that two young men discovered a car ablaze. It was obvious that there was someone in the car and after raising the alarm they tried to put the fire out. The car was a Morris Minor and from the number plate they were able to identify the car as belonging to a 37-year-old commercial traveller A. A. Rouse of Buxted Road, Finchley, north London. Mrs Rouse was unable to identify the remains from the car as her husband. This was an unsuccessful attempt to stage his own death to get him out of financial difficulties.
Suffocation by fluid. Drowning May be due to inhaling external
fluid, such as water, or to the presence of body fluids in the
lungs.
Death caused by electric current. It is used as a method of execution
in some US states. The condemned person
is
strapped into a special chair and a shock of 1,800-2,000 volts is
administered.
Shotgun, handheld, shoulder-supported smoothbore weapon, designed primarily to discharge multiple projectiles (small round pellets, known as shot) each time it is fired. Shotguns, a form of small arms, are mainly used in hunting small game, especially birds, or for competition shooting at targets thrown into the air. Shotguns used for hunting larger game or to serve military or police purposes are loaded with a single conical slug or spherical ball or with large pellets known as buckshot.
History
Shotguns were usually referred to as birding or fowling pieces until the first half of the 19th century. The practice of firing a charge of small shot when hunting small game was mentioned in English law as early was 1549, but specialized weapons for this type of shooting did not come into vogue until the early 17th century. Barrels 1.5 to 1.8 m (5 to 6 ft) in length characterized weapons made primarily for shooting waterfowl; 0.9 to 1.2 m (3 to 4 ft) barrels were common for field use. Until the end of the 18th century most of these pieces had a single barrel; a series of improvements in ignition made it possible subsequently to reduce the length and weight of the weapons. In turn, this allowed gunsmiths to produce practical double-barreled guns (two barrels mounted side by side) and made popular the sport of shooting birds in flight.
Modern Day
Thereafter, improvements on shotguns followed developments in the manufacture of firearms in general, until the middle of the 19th century when the chokebore barrel was perfected. A constricting of the muzzle end of the barrel forced the pellets to stay in a tighter group for longer distances, and the length of the barrel was further reduced to that customary today, 0.5 to 0.8 m (1.5 to 2.5 ft).
Single-barreled repeating shotguns appeared in the 1880s but were
slow
to become popular; today, however, they account for a large percentage
of the shotguns in use. Modern pump-action and semiautomatic shotguns
equally
share the field with the familiar side-by-side and single-barreled
pieces
that have had no major improvements in the 20th century.
Strangulation causes death by asphyxia as a result of constriction
of the neck by force, either by use of the hands or a ligature. A
ligature may be a piece of cord or a man's tie or in the case of a
sexual
attack it may be a pair of tights or stockings. It is placed
around
the neck and the two ends are then pulled tightly together. A
victim
will have blue or purple lips and ears, the nails will have changed
colour.
The victim will also have blood staining around the mouth and nose and
there may be froth evident. The tongue may be protruding and
sometimes
the victim will have their fists clenched.
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